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I just got my first real bill from Sprint and it’s just as I expected…

I can’t say how happy I am with the service, I actually have FEWER dropped calls on my Sprint/Blackberry than I did with my ATT Blackberry.

I also love the Bluetooth Tethering, so I can use it as a modem, and the included Navigation (from Telenav) is great!  I can even call in my destination, and it pushes it back down to my phone, so I can navigate completely hands free.

For those of you slaved to some long contract with ATT or Verizon, I would strongly encourage you to look at Sprint.  I call their plan the $99.00 “No Surprise Plan”, and I’m beaming!

By the way, I used 3,271 minutes last month… for $99.00, send I don’t know how many emails, or data, or SMS text messages on top of that.  But it doesn’t matter… it’s all one price.

So long ATT… you had your chance.

I’ve done it…

I’ve finally severed the last vestage of AT&T in my life.  And Good Riddance.

Today, I signed up for Sprint’s new $99.99/month everything plan.  And I purchased a new BlackBerry as well.  What has driven me to this point? Well, let’s start at the beginning.

1996 – I got a cellular phone with Bellsouth.net, and my first cellular number.  (Which I am leaving behind with AT&T)

I suffered all of the throes of Analog Cellular Service with Bellsouth, suffered with them through thick, thin and the lack of good wireless plans.

I moved from Motorola phones, to Nokia, whom I stayed with for almost 8 years. (In 2004, I got my first Blackberry).  Bellsouth turned into Cingular, and the transition was smooth’ish, and the plans finally got better.  Rollover plans were very popular, and I moved to one of those during the first year of Cingular’s takeover.  Rollover plans helped even out the differing months of usage, and wireless minutes were still a pain to track, and ensure that you didn’t go over.  The penalties for going over your minutes were severe, and still haven’t changed.

Since AT&T took over, they have lost my Television business (Bellsouth Americast), my Internet DSL, and now my cellular service.  AT&T has systematically destroyed all of the great services that Bellsouth and Cingular had created.

AT&T has raised prices, removed over 50% of the customer service, hasn’t upgraded the network, either the DSL, or Cellular, and removed the features that made Americast such a good cable network.  Now recently, my charges have been out of control… so, AT&T is fired… and I’m so happy!

My new Blackberry is coming in on Tuesday, and my new number is coming with it… I’m retiring my old number, and making a clean break.  So long AT&T, have a nice existance… I’m done with you…